Sean Barrett

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Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
SPL 24
203-432-6928
Research Areas: 
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics
Research Type: 
Experimentalist
Current Projects: 

Quadratic Echo Line-Narrowing, Imaging Hard and Soft Solids, Advancing Spectral Reconstruction with Undersampled Data Sets, Custom NMR/MRI Probe Design and Construction

Research : 

Experimental condensed matter physics; using OPNMR to study electron-doped GaAs quantum wells in the presence of large magnetic fields.

Education: 
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1992
Selected Publications: 
  • Anomalies in the NMR of Silicon: Unexpexted Spin Echoes in a Dilute Dipolar Solid, A.E. Dementyev, D. Li, K. MacLean, Sean E Barrett, 2003, Physical Review B, 68, 153302.
  • OPNMR–A Local Probe of Spin Physics, A.E. Dementyev, P. Khandelwal, N.N. Kuzma, Sean E Barrett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, 2001, Solid State Comm., 119, 217-227.
  • Spectroscopic Evidence for the Localization of Skyrmions near Nu=1 as T->0, P. Khandelwal, A.E. Dementyev, N.N. Kuzma, Sean E Barrett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, 2001, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 5353.
  • Optically Pumped NMR Studies of Electron Spin Polarization and Dynamics: New Constraints on the Composite Fermion Description of nu = 1/2, A.E. Dementyev, N.N. Kuzma, P. Khandelwal, Sean E Barrett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, 1999, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 5074.